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How to Change the World: The way of Jesus, and the way of Marx

How the Cape became a colony

How Absurdity arises in an unreasonable world: Reading Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus

Goodreads for the week 05.02.2017

The Resurrection of Jesus: Myth or History?

Reading Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus: On the paradoxes of the mind when making truth claims

The Myth of Jesus: Discovering the History Behind Faith II

The Myth of Jesus: Discovering the History Behind Faith

G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition): Common on Religion, Truth and God

The Personality of the foetus: How personhood begins at conception

Is Artificial Intelligence an Existential Threat to Humanity? The Problem of Computers and Mental States

Is Artificial Intelligence an Existential Threat to Humanity? Making sense of artificial consciousness

Why do Christians eat shrimp? The problem of picking and choosing which Old Testament laws to follow

Life’s irreducible structure: Can life evolve from chemicals?

The Cartesian ghost in the machine: The origins of the mind-body problem

Debugging the genetic program: The myth of DNA as the blueprint of life

Good Philosophy has skin in the game

René Descartes on critical thinking and avoiding error in judgments

My Top Goodreads for the week

Photograph: I know why the “Sunbird” sings

Italian fascist dictator, Mussolini, on being a consistent moral relativist

Life is Context: The Nature of Gene Regulation

Evolution’s time problem – New ways of regulating existing genes

Evolution’s time problem – waiting for genetic change

Evolution’s search problem -Can evolution navigate protein space?

Evolution’s search problem – Searching through protein sequence space for genetic novelty Part 2

Evolution’s search problem – searching through protein sequence space for genetic novelty Part 1

Stephen Jay Gould on the meaning of life in an evolved world

Blackness as an ethical symbol

Will Durant on the pleasure of philosophy

Is morality an evolutionary instinct?

Waiting for a coevolving pair of mutations – problems with evolution

The state of fatherhood in South Africa

Hot wings and Jesus – In search of soul food?

Carthage must be rebuilt: Thabo Mbeki’s timeless advice to students of the African continent

What does embryology say about when life begins?

Cosmologists Vilenkin and Mithani on whether the universe had a beginning

The link between design, meaning and ethics
